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...Peninsula in the northwest corner of the republic. Another, spearheaded by tanks, drove down the Uijongbu Valley toward the Southern capital of Seoul, which lies on the western side of the peninsula, only about 40 miles south of the 38th parallel. A full Northern division surrounded the central Korean railway terminus of Chunchon, just south of the border...
Last February at a railway station near Tours, Raymonde had lain flat on her face in the path of a slow-moving train loaded with tanks. When the engineer stopped his train a mob of Communists swarmed aboard, overpowered the guards, ripped batteries and wires out of the tanks. The train was held up for nine hours...
Chin and Kachin guerrillas. But in the Irrawaddy valley and along the Rangoon-Mandalay railway line, it has made more progress in the past month than in the previous year. Prime Minister Thakin Nu has said that as soon as Bur,ma is pacified he will become a Buddhist monk. He may possibly have his wish...
...Dominion government took over all prairie mineral rights not then privately owned, turned them over to the provinces in 1930. Almost all the royalties from the current Alberta oil boom have gone to the province, some to the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Hudson's Bay Company...
...learned his English on the West Coast during a 19-year visit to his immigrant father. Working first as a railway laborer and store clerk, he later majored dramatics at the University of Washington and played bit parts in a few Hollywood movies. He went back to Japan with his wife Yoneko when her U.S. entry permit expired in 1937. As a Japanese radio announcer, Joe worked in the same matchbox-sized studio with Tokyo Rose. But "she was an American citizen undermining the morale of U.S. troops," he explains disapprovingly. Then he adds: "I was a Japanese citizen merely...